Croatian Proverbs

Croatian Proverbs capture Adriatic coastal life and mountain grit, shaped by centuries between Venice, Vienna, and the Balkans. They prize honor, hospitality, hard work, and a wry sense of fate.

A good horse has many faults; a bad one has hardly any. (Croatian Proverb)
Man plans, but God decides. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
Don't measure a wolf's tail until he is dead. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
No solutions without discussions. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
The more eggs, the thicker the soup. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
It is better to be a bull for a year than a cow for a hundred years. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
It is easy for someone to talk about fasting when he has a full belly. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
Polite words open iron gates. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
Save three pieces of gold and the fourth one will fall into your lap. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
The drunkard thinks of only one thing and the barman of something else. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
The hunchback sees the hump of others – never his own. (Croatian Proverb)
The udder of a neighbor's cow is always bigger. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
To follow everyone is wrong, to follow no one is worse. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
Truth's violinist is always beaten with his own bow. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
Where right has no power - there power likes to be. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
Where the army goes there is no grass. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
With a full belly it is easy to talk about fasting. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
Woe to him who sits upon a branch. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
A guest will not know what fasting means. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
An empty barrel sings in the wind. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
Better be in debt than in shame. (Croatian Proverb)
Even a dog will not eat a leg without flesh. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
God does not love those who have not suffered. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
His whole life he carried his wife on his back. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
If sorrow would not talk it would die. View proverb
Croatian Proverb
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